Luca Di Tommaso is an Associate Professor of Pathology at Humanitas University Hospital, Italy. He graduated in 1997 at the School of Medicine, University of Bologna. Afterward, he continued with his Postgraduate Medical School in Pathology at the University of Bologna, Italy.
Starting in 2014 he became a Fellow at the International Academy of Cytology. Since 2021 he is a member of Commissione Riesame at Humanitas University. He is a former member of the Senato Accademico at Humanitas University (2016-2020). The main field of his research is Liver Pathology. In his early studies, he investigated the morphological, phenotypical, and molecular aspects of human hepato-carcinogenesis (and in particular those of pre-and early- neoplastic lesions. He then moved to the study of prognostic features of more advanced forms of hepato- and cholangio- cellular carcinoma (Primary Liver Cancer, PLC).
All the above researches were focused on tumoral cells. More recently, I focused my attention on the study of the tumoral microenvironment in PLC and in liver metastases, in particular Tumoral Endothelial Cells (TEC, see selected publication 3). Other fields of interest are represented by Breast, Thymic, and Thyroid pathology: in each of these fields, he contributed to identifying novel entities (such as the adenoid cystic variant of Thymic carcinoma). Accordingly, he is one of the authors of the 5th version of WHO Classification of Thymic Tumors. He has a strong commitment to the History of Medicine: this latter and Pathology, are his teaching topics at Humanitas University.